A small update for you all. Quickboost radiostack has been painted. A beautiful little model in its own right.


I will hopefully get more bench time soon. I'm really keen to crack on but life gets in the way!

Nice work James



Terri

James,

That radio stack looks terriffic. I hope it is still visible once buried inside the fuselage!

Thanks guys. I gotta say I haven't spent as much time at the bench as I would have liked this last month and I have only made slim progress... the tub is fitted into one half of the fuselage . I'm hoping to join it together soon.

James,
It's still progress none the less.

The rather large multi crew pit really looks quite good. the weathering is outstanding to say the least.

Joel

That interior looks incredible, nice paint job. The gun barrels look very convincing for example.

The aftermarket stuff like the propellers is well spend, for the cowling judge for yourself after the dryfit test of the complete airframe, with some care, trimming and putty you can improve the look very much.
Killing the budged with aftermarket stuff is not everything in modelling.

Mengs Me 410 is riding on my wishlist for a long time, so i will watch your build with interest.

Happy Modelling
Bernd

Joel, thankyou and Bernd, I had completely forgotten about the oil intakes. Eek....

The fuselage halves went together with great difficulty. Either my sub assemblies were awful, or the fuselage halves were warped. Anyway after clamping and gluing I have a fuselage.
I presided it and hit it with a matt clear to protect it from handling.


Next.... wings engines and all the fun stuff.

Looks good James, i am looking forward to the "fun things"
:)
Guess closing the fuselage with all the interior sub assemblies is a complex step during the construction.

It's not very comforting that the fuselage halves don't fit to well . I got two of these in the stash man ....

Will have side with Bernd though , with all the sub assemblies it would be a challenge getting this to line up . She is shaping up wonderful so far . How was the fit of the tail feathers ?


Terri

More than likely it was an error on my part with the sub assembly line up Terri, being my most ambitious build for a long while I think probably I wasn't being careful enough. The sides of the panels in the cockpit needed shaving a little. Maybe I fumbled earlier on. The fit of the tail was great, no gaps thus farand I have one of the wings nearing completion and that has gone together wonderfully. I will hopefully have time to get some photos up after work !

Hey guys I have some photos !.
The wing has gone together really well and prospective test fitting throws that it will all be nice and snug when it goes together.. I will redo the preshading, it's not fine enough.. also there is a little glue mark on the underside of the wings that needs filling.. whoops. And on the front window.

James

I am following your build with interest as this kit is near the top of my shopping list. Looking good so far- you did a great job on the cockpit and engine. They are packed with detail.

Simon

Thankyou Simon! Glad your enjoying. The internals have nice detail but IMO lack a little definition. Nothing careful painting can't solve though...

One wing is on the other is in the prep stages. Also redid the preshading, waiting on a new needle and nozzle before I get started on major paintwork too so I have time to focus on the smaller parts. Also waiting on canopy parts (some of mine had bubbles) but meng come back from new year holiday on the 7th so I have a little wait.. Maybe have to start something new when I'm at *that* stage


And a test. Biggest aircraft I have built in a long time



Have a good weekend !

Good progress so far, guess the harder part of the build is done.
Nice preshading, this will give the finish a "busy" look.

The details look really nice, Meng has done a good job with them.Hope they did a good job with the canopy too, my Monogram Hornet looked way better without

james,
Looking forward to how your camo paint scheme comes out with your pre-shading.
Joel

Joel and Bernd, thankyou guys! I have run across another problem causes probably by my bad building... the bomb bay doors don't fit well. At all. So. Against my initial plan of having everything closed up and committed to memory and the forum, I will have the bomb bay open.

Paint on the inner doors.


Preshading



And a little colour test.



I will have to be more careful with the lighter grey, seems to cover better than the darker ones. I forsee many light coats. I'm using life colour.

More soon... J

James,
As far as the bomb bay door go, did you dry fit those prior to painting? Having the bomb bay doors open is fine. I do it all the time. Just hoping that you painted the bomb bay, and added a little weathering as well.

From your posted pic of the wing tip, the color looks fine. I can see the pre-shading coming through both of them just a tad, and that's the way you want it to be.

Joel

She is coming along super James




Terri

Don't know if this is "Kosher" but Sprue Bros has this kit on sale for $33.49US. Sale ends about 5 hours from now.
James, I normally build armor but this build and the low price has inspired me. Thanks for all the tips & trouble spots to look out for.
Sorry to anybody who might of been offended with me informing the readers about the sale. Shop local if you can !
Tom

Tom,
Just pm James and ask if you have any concerns as it would be the proper thing to do. In this case you're posting a sale price on the same kit that the build is about. Seems to me that some would be interested especially at the sale price.

Joel

Looks great so far and its good that the bomb bay panels refused to fit properly, your details came out very nice in that area.
Stunning and tempting build !

Tom , did you get one ? It's a very nice aircraft to build despite my errors! Bernd, thankyou it has so far been worth the challenge. The area I am now worried about the most is the canopy. If there was fit issues on the underside I dread to think how I will manage to bodge the canopy on.

Yep, I did ! Should hit the door tomorrow or Friday. This is one cool looking bird !

Tom

Nice you'll enjoy it!

Quick question to everyone. Has anyone built ICM's 48th do17 and ju88.. I have been bitten by the larger aircraft bug. I have seen the reviews but am wondering how they stack up to other manufacturers.

A bit of bulk progress here. I have sprayed the main camouflage apart from that of the upper fuselage. I will wait till the canopy is masked and attached before I continue with that. Prospectively the fit looks OK but time will tell. I'm happy with the preshading. I tend to over or under do it. The underside is usually my biggest problem being way too heavy but it seems OK on this one.